Can you do-it-yourself?
When I moved to NYC 12 years ago, I was in my mid-20s and soooo excited to live with my best friend from college, Jen. We immediately hightailed it to IKEA to get furniture for our new apartment, which smelled like the pizza parlour two floors below us. I opened the boxes of furniture in our tiny living room floor. Jen assembled the 2 pieces of furniture while I was still trying to figure out how to break down the cardboard boxes the pieces had come in. Some people are just good like that!
Now that Boston Guy and I have settled in a bit, we've realized that until we get more furniture we'll never be able to unpack all those cardboard boxes. We are flat out of storage space. To IKEA!
We went to the new IKEA in the 'burbs, and we got two pieces of furniture that naturally required assembly - a new tv stand and the dresser pictured above. Boston Guy set up the 3-shelf tv stand (complete with wheels) in .003 seconds. This time I hadn't even broken INTO the box with the dresser and he was finished. Sigh.
It took me two days to assemble the little bureau. At the end, there were several leftover pieces, but I couldn't figure out where they went or what purpose they served from the instruction manual. Now, the bottom drawer doesn't quite close...it juts out about 4 inches, which looks pretty funny. I don't care, I filled the whole thing with clothes anyway and there's one less carton in my bedroom. I consider it a victory!!
Have you ever assembled your own furniture? How long did THAT take?
Cheers, Lara
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I recently bought a bookcase from Target. It was a beast to put together! I used to consider myself a good direction follower...after this experience, not so much. But in my defense, it was only picture directions, NO written directions.
hi! i'm a swede...(just like ikea) n yeah i've assembled funiture... i'm seventeen n i go to ikea myself to buy stuff, n i've never experienced any trouble... oh right, there was that one time when i had to call them to inform them that manual wasnt accurate... but by the time i got to the lady i'd allready finished it!
